NEW YORK—Saying the choice was entirely in your hands, a report released Monday found that you could quit your job right now and just play PlayStation 5 until you run out of money. “At this very moment, you could walk out the front door of your office and go home to spend month after month playing G...
i did this last winter; i firmly believe everyone has and needs slovenly unemployment periods to remind you of the perils of not working [but in equal measure, the bliss of not working and the amount of luxury you can just coast on]
I'm doing this right now. It's the first time in 10 years I haven't had someplace I needed to be 5 days a week. It's really changing my perspective on what I need out of a job and what I could be improving in my life if I weren't spending that time working.
Ugh I wish... been working since I was 15 and I guess had the luxury of never not having a job? 25 years now and the longest break I have ever seen was 3 weeks for the birth of 1 of my children. The other was only 2 weeks. I can also count the amount of times I had 2 weeks off which was 3 times. The rest has been the normal 1 week off twice a year with a few other days here and there.... I'm so tired.
This is horrific. I complain at my 5 week a year allowance sometimes because I feel It's not enough to avoid burnout at some points in the year... My productivity drops substantially after around 2 months with no break. I still output of course but if I take a two-three week summer break I come back dealing with issues that almost destroyed me before the break within hours or minutes and I can manage my team far more naturally. I think 8 weeks per year of holiday would genuinely boost my output overall.
I also forgot to mention the current place I have been with is 24/7 and have been here for 17 years now. Since we're 24/7 we only provide the bare minimum federal holidays a year which is 6. I also am technically always on call so if the stuff I support has an issue i can be called anytime any day even on vacation, which has happened the past 3, although not this year! I will say over my time of being here emergency calls are far and between these days thankfully. I almost can't wait for the day they fire me, I am so trained to be stressed I don't know what the other feels like anymore.
Like damn I'm in the exact same boat. Same number of years on the job and everything.
I always considered myself lucky to not be unemployed, while all my friends got laid off over the years due to the .com crash, housing crash, and COVID.